Hopkins County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Robert Stephensen, Hopkins County, Texas, 1867

Robert Stephensen registered to vote in Hopkins County. He reported Louisiana as his birthplace and 12 years in Texas, 12 of them in Hopkins County. The registrar wrote "colored" beside his name. Hopkins County registered 282 freedmen in 1867, 16% of its voters.

Born in Louisiana, registered in Hopkins County, Texas

Louisiana
Birthplace: 12 years
In Texas: 12 years
In the county

What the register records

Name: Robert Stephensen
Place of birth: Louisiana
County of registration: Hopkins County
Precinct: 2
Years in Texas: 12 years
Years in Hopkins County: 12 years
Years in the precinct: 12 years
Remarks, as written: "colored"

Hopkins County on the 1870 county map

Variations of Stephensen

Stephens 49
Stephenson 13

Sources

This entry comes from the 1867 to 1870 Texas voter registration, the Texas Secretary of State registration lists held by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission. Hopkins County's entries fill 40 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.

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